Ceramic Pottery Marks

Our website includes marks stamps chops and or signatures etc usually found on the bottom of ceramic objects created by potters ceramic artists and sculptors.

Ceramic pottery marks.

The range of moorcroft pottery marks begins with william moorcroft s time at the mackintyre pottery and covers the 100 year history of design and ownership by william his son walter moorcroft other more current owners and marks of artists and designers from the moorcroft design studio. Balleroy et cie marks. See more ideas about pottery porcelain pottery marks. We welcome your feedback on the website its search functions and appearance.

Antique pottery marks can usually be found on the bottom of a piece of pottery and used to identify the potter. Click an image to open the full moorcroft marks section. Many potteries used letters and initials to identify their ware this is an alphabetic listing of the initials used and the companies they correspond to. Porcelain and china ware marks the earliest porcelain mark in the history of european production is the monogrammed meissen ar mark which stands for augustus rex sometimes known as augustus the strong.

It can be difficult for a novice collector to be sure whether they are looking at an authentic or fraudulent maker s mark. Alba iulia apulum marks. General guide to ceramic marks dating. Learning the unique signature of each manufacturer takes time but is certainly worth the effort.

Porcelain and pottery marks porcelain and pottery marks. Ackermann fritze marks. Bac et perigault marks. As king of saxony in the eighteenth century augustus commissioned the first production of european hard paste porcelain.

1910 to 1915 by fulper pottery co.